Museum of Fashion and Applied Arts
Museum in Gorizia housing applied arts, costume, ceramics, glass, and lace from the 18th–20th centuries, with strong emphasis on Central European elegance and regional craft traditions.
Salvatore Ferragamo Museum – Spini Feroni Palace
A museum dedicated to Salvatore Ferragamo’s iconic footwear and leather goods, housed in Florence’s medieval Palazzo Spini Feroni since 1995, featuring rotating exhibitions from an archive of over 14,000 shoe models.
The La Fenice Theater
Venice’s premier opera house, La Fenice has hosted world premieres by Rossini, Verdi, Stravinsky and Britten across two reconstructions.
Venice Biennale
The world’s first international biennial art exhibition, founded in 1895 in Venice to promote artistic innovation and contemporary culture globally.
The Great School of the Carmini
A seventeenth-century Venetian confraternity with Tiepolo’s visionary frescoes and masterworks by Piazzetta, celebrating the Virgin of Mount Carmel through art and charitable works.
Ponte degli Scalzi or the Station
A stone arch bridge spanning Venice’s Grand Canal, replacing an 1858 cast-iron structure. Designed by Eugenio Miozzi and inaugurated in 1934, it connects the railway station to the historic city center.
Bridge of Sighs
A Baroque bridge of Istrian stone built in early 17th-century Venice, connecting the Doge’s Palace to the New Prisons—named for the sighs of prisoners once ferried between them.
Grassi Theater
A 225-seat auditorium within Palazzo Grassi designed by Tadao Ando in 2013, hosting contemporary art programming on Venice’s Grand Canal.
Baptistery of St. Giovanni
A monumental baptistery in Pisa’s Piazza dei Miracoli, blending Romanesque and Gothic styles across two centuries of construction starting in 1152.
Palatine Huts
Three Iron Age huts carved into tufa rock on Rome’s Palatine Hill, discovered in 1948, represent the city’s earliest known settlements from the 10th–7th century BC.